SCUC ISD board to vote on new school name in December

By David DeKunder, San Antonio Express-News

Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The names of a former Texas governor, a former Schertz mayor and several educators are among 16 that have been submitted to the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District for a new elementary school that will open next year.

A committee put in charge of reviewing the names presented the list to SCUC board of trustees at their Oct. 16 meeting. The three-member committee consists of trustees Scott Harrod, Gary Inmon and George Ricks. The names were submitted to the committee from community members.

Notable names on the list for the district's new $34 million elementary school, scheduled to open in 2015 at FM 1103 and Green Valley Road in Cibolo, are former Texas governor Ann Richards and former Schertz mayor Hal Baldwin.

In offering the names to the board, Harrod said the committee considered those names that had been submitted before a new district policy on naming schools was put into place. The new policy, approved by the board in August, emphasizes naming elementary schools after streets, neighborhoods or the area they are located in. Only two names submitted to the committee would meet the requirements of the new policy, Cibolo Valley and Comanche.

The proposed names for the new school will be posted on the Nov. 20 and Dec. 18 board meeting agendas for public comment, and on the district's website —www.scuc.txed.net. Trustees will vote on a name at the December meeting.

Three speakers at the Oct. 16 meeting urged board members to name the new elementary school after Dolford, who spent 34 years in the district as an educator and administrator. One of those speakers was Dolford's daughter, Deanna Jackson, an assistant principal at Paschal Elementary School. Her father was her principal when she attended Schertz Elementary School.

“I ask you to name this campus after an individual who means so much to so many and someone who has been nothing but a loyal, contributing supporter to this district for so very long,” she said. “My principal and my father, Marion Dolford.”